NAGOYA, Nov 02 (Information On Japan) –
Ninoike, a 3,067 meter lake as soon as shining in cobalt blue close to the summit of Mount Ontake, has solely dried up, leaving solely mud instead.
Takashiro Kunitomo from the Ontake Volcano Analysis Institute mentioned, “Not a lot is understood about Ninoike, however one principle is that it was created by a phreatic eruption. It’s believed to have shaped between 30,000 and 10,000 years in the past.”
The lake shaped in a volcanic crater stuffed with water. However why has it disappeared?
Kunitomo defined, “It was buried by volcanic ash from the 2014 eruption.”
In 2014, Mount Ontake skilled Japan’s worst post-war volcanic catastrophe, with 58 folks killed and 5 reported lacking.
Over the previous ten years, volcanic ash from that eruption has continued to circulate in, erasing a lake that’s thought to have existed for over 10,000 years.
May the lake ever return to its former state?
“I feel it might be troublesome,” Kunitomo mentioned. “The quickest approach could be one other phreatic eruption that would create a gap in that spot, however that might additionally convey injury, which is one thing we don’t want for.”
Supply: ANN
